On Saturday 03 August 2013 20.19.48 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > Please let's try to keep this discussion in release-team, I'm just CC'ing > k-c- d because Alex's discussion about changing the release happened there. > > At the Release Team BoF at Akademy I was tasked to come up with a proposed > schedule for 4.12 with simplified freezes, since it was agreed so many > freezes confused our contributors. > > Here's my attempt > http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.12_Release_Schedule > > Basically the schedule looks like > > 30 October (everything except documentation is frozen) > +1 week Beta 1 Tag+Release: November 6 > +1 week Beta 2 Tag+Release: November 13 > +1 week Beta 3 Tag+Release (with documentation freeze): November 20 > +1 week RC Tag+Release: November 27 > +2 week Final Tag: December 11 > +1 week Final Release: December 18 > > Summary: > * There's just one freeze > This should make it easier to everyone know when to commit something or > not. Exception for documentation that you get 3 weeks more, rationale is > that documentation team works after features are finished so we give them > some more time for the last-minute finished features > > * We do Betas/RC more often > Every week instead of every 2 weeks, this way we achieve (if distros > deliver) more "interactivity" with bugrepors+fixes since people is always > testing something that is closer to the tip of the code (it happens fairly > usually that someone reports a bug and it was fixed "last week" already, > wasting "user testing" and "bug answering" resources) > > Comments?
Just a simple +1 :) /Torgny _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list release-team@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team